[Merged]US election stuff

[greenlake]

Let me guess, another electoral fail?

[DodgyAgent]

[vetran]

Results for the 18-25 year olds only.

yeah a self made Mysoginist with a bad hairdo versus a woman that endangered the fabric of the US of course the snowflakes voted for her!

[WTFH]

I was going to post this in a different thread, but it might be best here.
Google wankpuffin
...what's the first result?

[pjclarke]

The misogyny is risibly obvious but self-made? Nope. His father can claim that accolade, the Donald well, not so much. Fred Trump was one of the wealthiest individuals in the US when Donald began his real estate career. Having endowed Donald with an allowance during his childhood greater than the average family wage, Fred went on to ensure that his son could never fail in business:-

Fred Trump's political credibility was also essential to Donald's first big success. In his book "The Art of the Deal," Donald wrote that "the only way to get financing was if the city gave me a tax abatement." Part corporate welfare and part urban renewal scheme, the tax abatements allowed property owners to pay lower taxes than they would normally pay. Donald's application got lots of attention from city officials, who eventually gave him a $40 million reduction. Without this gift from his father's friends, Donald's first project would never have been started.

By 1990, a few bailouts later, Fred was suffering from early onset Alhzeimers and Donald was in real trouble, The Trump Organization was $5 billion in the red with $1 billion guaranteed by Donald personally. He only survived by tapping his siblings for loans against the money they knew they would soon inherit.

Four corporate bankruptcies later, Trump is feted as the model for the American Dream, the champion of the little guy and an example of the self-made businessman, proof that with hard work (and the odd inherited $million and bailout from the Bank of Dad when you screw up) anyone can achieve the highest office.

This despite the fact that for the last 30 years, Trump's net worth has increased at a rate lower than the US stock market average. Wow, what a businessman!

But you gotta hand it to the guy, he just pulled off perhaps the greatest political con trick of the century.

America, the best democracy money can buy.


Did a 'small loan' from Dad launch Trump's career? - CNN.com

[NotAllThere]

yeah a self made Mysoginist with a bad hairdo versus a woman that endangered the fabric of the US of course the snowflakes voted for her!

I've never really thought of yank youth as being the snowflake generation - I think it really is much more a UK thing.

How to become a millionaire by Donald Trump: start ofr with a billion dollars...

[NotAllThere]

I was going to post this in a different thread, but it might be best here.
Google wankpuffin
...what's the first result?

Urban Dictionary: Wankpuffin
followed by links to pages that say "Google wankpuffin and the first hit is Donald Trump!"

Trump doesn't turn up until half way down page 2.

[WTFH]

I've never really thought of yank youth as being the snowflake generation - I think it really is much more a UK thing.

Nope, the first recorded time it was used was about Yale students...
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite...3#.WCbMrrSgmhA

[SueEllen]

I've never really thought of yank youth as being the snowflake generation - I think it really is much more a UK thing.

Depends how rich they are.

The behaviour seen at British universities e.g. no platforming originated in US colleges.

[WTFH]

Urban Dictionary: Wankpuffin
followed by links to pages that say "Google wankpuffin and the first hit is Donald Trump!"

Trump doesn't turn up until half way down page 2.

Google have fixed the feature. Several hours ago it worked.